• The number of homeless people living in San Francisco is astounding. And they stay right there in the heart of the city, a few meters away from the chic luxury stores. One second you are looking at a Gucci shop window and the next thing you see is people playing dices for money on the street in front of an erotic club.

  • Only in California you can pay at a farmer’s market with a credit card.

  • You can find soft drinks and junk food in a sports equipment shop (and in many other places they don’t really belong to).

  • Having a walk in the bay area (any place beside San Francisco) feels weird. You are the only one walking and there is absolutely nothing but houses and fast foods for miles.

  • The weather is amazingly good.

  • Product features include a list of “No X”, where X can be just about anything. Does not matter whether “X” is provenly bad or not. I guess it’s very easy to start a collective psychosis: just put “No potatoes” on a product and everybody will start worrying about potatoes.

  • People are tall.

  • Cisco has offices in Cisco Way.

  • Traffic is awful. However when there is not traffic driving is great.

  • There are 2 kinds of people: those with an iPhone and those with some other smartphone. The latter are a minority.

  • Halloween is a serious thing. People don’t mind waiting hour-long queues to get into bars.

  • Everything come in XL size. 8 lanes highways, seriously?

  • Most beers taste like hop juice, let alone IPAs.

  • iPhone covers are used to express your personality.

  • Nobody drinks water. Only soft drinks, power drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks. At least it needs to contain added vitamins, colorants, and come in a grillion flavors.

  • When you go out for dinner you don’t choose the restaurant, you choose the nationality.

  • In San Francisco people stop you to tell you how much they appreciate your look.